13-3-13 WIAW – Take Sixteen

Hola, cupcakes! Enough whining, let’s get celebrating! It’s Wednesday 13-3-13! Cool numbers though they say nothing to me. I’m more into fives, sevens and eights. Yup, I don’t have a favorite number. So when someone asks me to pick a number I… go… really… slow… cause I don’t know!!

Anyway, I have some yesterday’s picks to share with you and bunch of others at Jenn’s Peas & Crayons WIAW gathering.

I still don’t follow any meal plan, well maybe except breakfast – I’m eating it no matter what. Eating to my hunger (at least I try to) and taste. Not putting on any jeans – only dresses (the gorgeous ones) and on the whole looking my best!

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Haha, I warned YOU!! Just when writing this comment I am digging in the pancakes! (2 huge ones :-))
When I was younger, 29 was my fave number. No idea why. And I swore that I would be a mother by then. When was the time again, when I was 29??? And where are all the kids??
Cheese??!! You can’t ask this a Swiss. I need to make list:
Parmesan
Gruyère
Tète de Moine
Gorgonzola
Sbrinz
and 14 0000 more
Happy Wednesday!!! I love your food too!!

My favourite number is 9! Thus I do everything 3 times because 3 is the quickest way to 9! Yes, I’m nutty about numbers even though I hate mathematics! Ha ha!

And seriously?! Your lunch salad mountain looks JUST LIKE my veganised luau chicken salad!!!!!!!!! Restaurant quality. Superb. I would even consider eating chicken if you were creating such a beautiful bowl for me. Your colleagues are very fortunate!

Happy 3-13-13… that’s how we say it here. Even though I revolt against it, writing my dates like the Euros. 😉 xo

Oh how I would love to share my present bottle of wine with you! Drinking some (after spin) then off to the spa! I hope that you had a delicious lunch salad, inspired by my fabulous salad (NOT concocted by non susie homemaker moi, of course, haha); and I am delighted that you love nine. There’s a fabulous restaurant in Pittsburgh named Nine. I love it but don’t go because they don’t accommodate to dogs. And I love that you are confused by American dates. I was the girl in school who used the metric system whilst everyone else used our stupid fucking measurements. America sucks! Except for NY. 🙂 xo

You are something!! I can’t imagine you going against american measurements!! I remember when I got there I was so confused by my size and weight!! It’s a shock when you suddenly weigh over 100!!!! So scary!!
And the wine is so tempting! Always tempting!

I adore cheese! I have so many favourites, garlic cream cheese, halloumi, goats cheese, mature cheddar, feta, mmm! Definitely find things interesting with meal planning v just eating whatever – re your comment I have found that I have tended to under eat when I don’t meal plan / calorie count and then end up binging as a result of unintentionally restricting. Nothings simple is it 😉 I bet you look amazing in your dresses xxx

Yay for cheese, Laura!! I wonder if we ate it for breakfast/lunch and dinner, will we get sick of it? I guess not? 😀
Yup, intuitive thing is tricky, especially for people with some food issues in the past, however I do believe in it as an ultimate way to eat for life! I will definitely be striving for it! So I’m beyond curious about your progress with it!

Yum, salads all over the WIAW today! I do especially like the idea of the salad with cucumber and chicken – what a perfect appetizer. How nice of you that you shared it with your collegues… I doubt that I would have :p

Honestly, Ksenija – I’d prefer not to share, though their poor sandwiches look awful, so I feel bad for them and offer my food (which suppose to be my lunch!) but then again I have an opportunity to get home and to prepare something quick and delicious in the middle of the day 😀

Pancakes and rice cakes sound yum! I never followed a meal plan when I was in recovery- I just had guidelines and it worked better for me. When I did follow a meal plan, it became too restrictive. I think that’s great for you!

Hey lovely, my ‘lucky’ number is 4 don’t really know why at this time. It was a ritual thing when I was very sick so I may rethink, probably 7, as this was my nana’s. As for cheese, well I like it, however I’m on a MAOI diet, it’s a anti-depressant with dietary restrictions, this includes ALL cheese! So I do miss it, I had no options as no other med. worked…lol

Oh, I’m happy you are feeling good on your diet. When I hear “diet” I freeze. I hate the word so much even though it’s primal meaning is to eat – which is good.
And out of 4 or 7 I’d pick 7. But as I’ve said – I’m more into sevens on the whole 😉

My lucky number is 27!
The first day of 6th grade, the locker assigned to me was #27, the combination for my lock was 2727, my bus to and from school was #27 my chorus folder number was 27!
It was so strange, but obvious! So I kept it as my lucky number ever since 🙂

Presentation is so important and I am jealous that you have such a lovely set-up for your office lunch! It makes the meal look so elegant… you could eat the same salad from a Tupperware container and it just wouldn’t be the same!

For grilled cheese, I like to shred Kasseri (somewhat pungent). For breakfast, on special occasions, I like to saute halloum – it’s so salty/yummy, I read somewhere that it’s the “vegetarian alternative to bacon…” Not the healthiest of cheeses, but worth it once in a while.

Oh, you are so right about the presentation! I tried to handle the Tupperware thing – and it was working against me! I can’t eat ugly looking food, despite it’s taste or smell.
I know that cheese hasn’t the best reputation in the healthy food chain. It’s just my (too much) indulgence, like chocolate or a glass of wine I rarely enjoy. I truly should be skipping on that more than I’m willing to 😉

I’m partial to really any number too. But I’ve always been a fan of 3, 5, 7, 9, or 11. I really like odd numbers 🙂

And cheese. Eh. Even if I’m able to eat dairy again someday, no cold cheese. I can’t stand the stuff. However, macaroni and cheese (especially the ones with little characters like Scooby Doo 🙂 ), mozzarella cheese on pizza, and american cheese for grilled cheese would be my favorites.

You’ve never heard of chocolate covered rice cakes? I thought I live in a third world country – we have no almond butters, meals, coconut butter and lots of other stuff normal world eats – but we have rice cakes covered in dark/white chocolate, yogurt and dried fruit/nut mixes. I bet you can find something where you live 😉

I fear the cheese… So I avoid it unless I’m out for a special occasion. Love goats cheese!!! But Camembert is my favourite for sheer yumminess!! Reminds me of France. I once took about 5 of them back to London..not caring that it got a bit smelly!!! Tip for keeping it from smelling in the fridge is to put ice packs on top of it!
😉
X

I like numbers that smile, so 5 and 9 are my favorites. The 3 actually smiles as well, but it always seems a little hypocritical to me, that’s why it’s not among my favorite numbers.

The pancake looks very good! I’ve looked up the original recipe and saw it’s very easy to make. Currently I’m trying out a lot of things eating-wise (currently smaller meals across the day, so different from what I told you recently – this is because it’s all experimenting atm) and I’m also trying foods that are new or haven’t been had regularly in a long time. So the pancake is really intriguing. 🙂

Yeah, I’m researching as well, Kath! And I tried that pancake as a treat replacing the oats with almond flour – divine taste. And as I made those once for myself and my man – he asks for them almost daily!! And I can’t resist those either 🙂

I have one question: Is almond flour like the stuff you receive from making almond milk? Or just ground almonds? I ask because I’ve read so much about almond flour and always wondered whether it’s something on it’s own. If it is, it’s at least nothing you can buy over here, but since I make *a lot* of almond milk myself (1 liter a day when I’m on my own, and two when Peter is here), I have quite a lot of leftover pulp. I used to collect it for my friend who baked with it, but I haven’t tried using it myself. You need to dry it in an oven or a pan though before using it, otherwise it will taste like nothing and even eat other flavors away.

PS. I’ll have to replace the yoghurt with almond milk when I make it, but I think it will work out. 🙂 As for the cheese … I’ve never really liked it, so I really don’t mind I can’t eat it. Yoghurt and curd were terrible to give up though. 😦 And hey hey, look at this: http://www.fussyfoodie.co.uk/foodie/4897/dairy-free-cheesecake/ 😀

My whole life long, important things have kept happening to me on the 13th, or with 13’s somewhere like in the address or a number somewhere important. I get tripped up by 4’s though – more OCD’ish behaviour though than ‘liking’ it.
And cheese? Yes please! Any cheese, as long as it’s not putrid!

Oh yes, on this day, I met the person who we now have agreed was meant to come into my life and help me heal.. had my intake for trauma counselling at a new place. So the 13.3.13 has been very auspicious for me 🙂

I’m Greta. I live in a small country in Europe. I am recovering from an eating disorder. But this blog is not only about that. It’s a cozy corner of my little life, full of passions for fashion, food, books and movies. Oh, and coffee... Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.

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